Knowledge VS Intelligence - Page 2

**angeleyes** · #11 (**permalink**) 25th September 2007, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick_A

Angeleyes

Did you mean this last post for this thread or for the Ken Wilber book thread? I don't believe I posted a link on this thread but perhaps you are referring to Chapter One of "A Sense of the Cosmos" If you are then perhaps I can become a bit more understandable and explain this separation you refer to in relation to man as a microcosmos or mini universe as related to the Great Universe.

Oh boy...... you're right.

Thanks and sorry to everyone for the confusion!

vivamis123 · #12 (**permalink**) 25th September 2007, 12:16 PM

Yeah, Angeleyes you really messed us all up with your post. I could not sleep all night! LOL

modus_tollens · #13 (**permalink**) 25th September 2007, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by vivamis123

What do you think is the difference between someone that is knowledgable and someone that is intelligent? Or is there a difference?

I think there is a significant difference. If the mind was a computer, knowledge would be analogous to hard drive capacity and intelligence analogous to CPU speed. There can be a vast disparity between amount of one versus the other.

vivamis123 · #14 (**permalink**) 25th September 2007, 08:08 PM

I agree M.T. We know where knowledge comes from, but where does intelligence come from? Can we become intelligent? Or are we _ _ _ _ out of luck, if we were not born with it?

modus_tollens · #15 (**permalink**) 25th September 2007, 08:16 PM

I think it's possible to increase intelligence but easier and we're more likely to succeed at increasing knowledge. The likelihood of doubling or tripling intelligence is far less than doubling, tripling, or more, our knowledge. That just seems to me to be the way it is.

Nick_A · #16 (**permalink**) 27th September 2007, 12:17 AM

Angeleyes

Yes it was a long chapter but did it make a dent?

There's the rub.

However, you wrote.

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Yes, ACIM talks about the "illusion" of the world. Infact it speaks of the physical world as a projection of the mind which believes in separation. If God is One and His Creation (Son) is a part of Him and shares that Oneness, then how can we truly be separate from Him or each other except in a state of delusion? If it were possible for us to be separate from the ALL, it would mean that a part of God split off and is now in opposition to Itself. That may be what we believe, but it does not make it true. Infact, the pain of doing this makes us realize, sooner or later, that there "must be a better way." ACIM reassures us that what we think we have done (perceive) is real only in our dreaming state from which we must awaken.

If the physical world is just an illusory projection of your mind, is there any reason to honor your body? Wouldn't it be better to just ignore it and maybe it will go away?

I'm curious from your ACIM understanding how you would interpret 1 Corinthians 6:

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18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

How can we sin against that which doesn't exist? How can something that doesn't exist be the temple of the Holy Spirit? What do you think is meant by "your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?"

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